GAMBLING help cards have been placed beside Invercargill pokie machines to remind gamblers of their addiction and include phone numbers to call for help.
These cards were placed there by the Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust and ILT Foundation.
Currently Invercargill gamblers lose a combined $40,000 a day, with an estimated $14.5 million lost each year.
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QUITING gambling in Australia has until now been made even harder with addicts who have been looking for help being diverted to a gambling advertisement page.
Problem gamblers who have been looking for website gamblersanonymous.com.au have instead been transfered to a website containing little more than advertisements for Australia’s big betting agencies: Sportsbet, Centrebet, Sportingbet and IASbet.
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